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  • RE: Service Pack 4

    James Stover (12/27/2009)


    I'll go one further - I don't think it's acceptable to have service packs.

    Brave statement. I'm pretty rigorous when writing code but I doubt that even...

  • RE: Service Pack 4

    I think of SQL Server/Oracle the way I think of BMW/Mercedes et al. I am paying a premium price for something that comes with certain quality expectations.

    Part of those...

  • RE: PowerPivot

    Personally I liked the original code name "Gemini".

    When IT doesn't support the business those non-IT parts of the business that are computer savvy design and build their own tools an...

  • RE: Architecture Principles

    One of the problems I found when switching to agile development practises was getting the non DB development team to accept architectural principles from the DB perspective.

    The good architects tend...

  • RE: A Fundamental Security Mistake

    As far as I am concerned encryption and data security should be present in all editions.

    I can understand the lesser editions having limits on CPU and RAM they can use.

    I...

  • RE: Is It Worth Upgrading to SQL Server 2008

    robert.goudie-497430 (12/18/2009)


    BTW we still use DTS - despite having several books at work on SSIS that our key people have read at one point or another.

    Thus far we have found...

  • RE: Is It Worth Upgrading to SQL Server 2008

    The article was mainly about standard edition.

    The killer feature for enterprise users is the ability to switch partitions on replicated tables. This means that with careful design the purge...

  • RE: Undocumented Extended and Stored Procedures

    The point has been made that many DBAs know these procs and have used them for years.

    Great, so why doesn't Microsoft include them in BOL?

    They are stable and have survived...

  • RE: SqlServerInstallation

    If it is for a development environment, then the Standard Edition may cover what you need..

    Worth buying developer edition. All the features of enterprise edition but for the price...

  • RE: Avoiding Dynamic SQL - How to Re-Write This ?

    You sql string should include a parameter marker

    set @sql = @sql + ' AND b.LocationID=@LocationID' etc

    That way sp_executesql will cache the appropriate query plan.

  • RE: SqlServerInstallation

    Depends on the license that has been bought and the hardware and OS you want to install it on.

    If you have the Enterprise license then use the Enterprise edition.

    If you...

  • RE: Foreign key

    If there are a discreet set of designs and a discreet set of sales reps then you need a separate mapping table with a combined primary key of LogoDesignID and...

  • RE: xp_cmdshell calling sqlcmd

    This sounds like a strange approach.

    Are you trying to back up on one server and restore on another?

    I would use a batch file that runs SQLCMD to do each task...

  • RE: Too many replication jobs?

    So you have one distributor but how many distribution databases do you have?

    I ran into a problem where the distributor didn't look like it was stressed but the outstanding transactions...

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